The most recent version of the Amazon Linux VMI (2015.09.1) seems to install version 2 of Puppet by default.
However, if you need to install Puppet 3, that is also easy enough.
Just type in the following to install it:
sudo yum install puppet3
If any errors pop up in respect to incorrect dependencies (this can happen if you installed puppet 2 first), just remove these – they should be reinstalled with the correct version for puppet 3 upon running the above command again.
You would like to install Oracle JDK using Puppet.
Using the puppetlabs/java module, you might get an error message such as:
Error: Java distribution oracle-jdk is not supported. at […]/init.pp:57 on node […]
Use the module puppet-jdk-oracle.
Just follow the installation instruction from the GitHub page.
Note that you might want to set the java version used to the latest available. You can find the latest version and build number from the Oracle JDK downloads page.
To get the build number, you first need to accept the terms and conditions and then check the URL of the link to download the version of the JDK you are interested in:
Also, make sure to configure the right platform: ‘x64’ for 64 bit systems and ‘i586’ for 32 bit systems.
UPDATE: Note that newer versions of Java 8 also require the inclusion of a hash. So the download link from Oracle will look as follows:
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz
The part in bold is the hash.
As of 26th of Mai 2017, the configuration needs to be adjusted as follows (Thanks @Vulco, see in comments below):
Within ~/manifests/install.pp adjust the following variables:
As of 30th of April 2015, this would be the configuration for the latest JDK version on 64 bit Linux:
class { ‘jdk_oracle’:
version => ‘8’,
version_update => ’45’,
version_build => ’14’,
platform => ‘x64’,
ensure => ‘installed’,
}
If you are using Linux, there is simple way to check if a user exists in MySQL:
echo `mysql -u root -p[your root password] -e ‘use mysql; SELECT user FROM user;’` | grep ‘[user name]‘
Executing this command will exit with return code 0 if the user exists and otherwise exit with 1.
This is very useful for building puppet scripts. The following execution will create a user if it doesn’t exist.
exec { “add user if not exist”:
unless => “echo `mysql -u root -p[psw] -e ‘use mysql; SELECT user FROM user;’` | grep ‘[username]‘”,
path => [“/bin”, “/usr/bin”],
command => “mysql -u root -p$mysql_password -e \”[Create User/Grant Rights Here]\””,
require => Service[“mysqld”],
}
Puppet allows deploying a structure of directories and files conveniently using the file resource.
Using the attributes ‘source => …’ and ‘recurse => true’, it is possible to create a copy of a set of files stored in the puppet module on target servers.
Unfortunately, using these attributes can slow down puppet significantly when the target directory on the server contains many files.
In my case, the time it took to apply a catalog jumped from under 5 seconds to more than 300 s.
If you are lucky, the related puppet bug #9671 is closed in your version of puppet (not as of time of this writing).
If not, I found the following strategy to be effective:
Using this strategy, I was able to reduce the time to apply mentioned catalog below 10 s, while maintaining most of the convenience offered by the ‘recurse’ attribute.
